If the price of using the Book of Life and Death was losing the Fortune the Golden Scale Ranking had bestowed on him, Xu Taiping would agree without hesitation.
Before the lives of all the people in a realm, let alone merely the Fortune bestowed on him by the Golden Scale Ranking, even if his own Fortune were added to the price, he would agree without hesitation.
If the price of using the Book of Life and Death was his own immediate death, Xu Taiping would refuse without hesitation.
He was willing to dwell in an abyss of evil and do good, but only if he was able to "do" anything.
If he could not even preserve his own life, how could he "do good"?
But the reason he hesitated now, the reason he was caught in this choice, was that the price of using the Book of Life and Death that Great Emperor Mysterious Wasteland had described fell precisely between those two extremes.
If he agreed, he would not die on the spot, but calling the suffering he would face afterward, along with the Nine Abysses' retaliation, a fate worse than death would be no exaggeration.
Yet if he refused, he felt it would be something of a pity.
Though the price is enormous, it is not entirely beyond what I can bear. Compared with the fate of the entire realm of Mysterious Wasteland Heaven, what does the suffering of a single person amount to?
Xu Taiping tried to persuade himself this way.
But immediately, he shook his head again and said:
"But I fear my path of cultivation would end here. With the Nine Abysses' hatred directed at me, I might never even be able to return to the Azure Profound Sect."
"Let alone fulfill Grandpa's last wish